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diff --git a/tools/virt-make-fs b/tools/virt-make-fs
index 1a19b98..d97d262 100755
--- a/tools/virt-make-fs
+++ b/tools/virt-make-fs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# virt-make-fs
-# Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Red Hat Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -56,39 +56,13 @@ data to a VM).
Basic usage is:
- virt-make-fs input output
+ virt-make-fs input output.img
where C is a disk image. The input type is detected
-automatically. The output disk image defaults to a raw ext2 image
-unless you specify extra flags (see L below).
-
-=head2 EXTRA SPACE
-
-Unlike formats such as tar and squashfs, a filesystem does not "just
-fit" the files that it contains, but might have extra space.
-Depending on how you are going to use the output, you might think this
-extra space is wasted and want to minimize it, or you might want to
-leave space so that more files can be added later. Virt-make-fs
-defaults to minimizing the extra space, but you can use the I<--size>
-flag to leave space in the filesystem if you want it.
-
-An alternative way to leave extra space but not make the output image
-any bigger is to use an alternative disk image format (instead of the
-default "raw" format). Using I<--format=qcow2> will use the native
-QEmu/KVM qcow2 image format (check your hypervisor supports this
-before using it). This allows you to choose a large I<--size> but the
-extra space won't actually be allocated in the image until you try to
-store something in it.
-
-Don't forget that you can also use local commands including
-L and L to resize existing filesystems,
-or rerun virt-make-fs to build another image from scratch.
-
-=head3 EXAMPLE
-
- virt-make-fs --format=qcow2 --size=+200M input output.img
+tar); and C is a disk image. The input type is detected
+automatically. The output disk image defaults to a raw ext2 sparse
+image unless you specify extra flags (see L below).
=head2 FILESYSTEM TYPE
@@ -150,6 +124,32 @@ better to use an EFI/GPT-compatible partition table:
virt-make-fs --partition=gpt --size=+4T --format=qcow2 input disk.img
+=head2 EXTRA SPACE
+
+Unlike formats such as tar and squashfs, a filesystem does not "just
+fit" the files that it contains, but might have extra space.
+Depending on how you are going to use the output, you might think this
+extra space is wasted and want to minimize it, or you might want to
+leave space so that more files can be added later. Virt-make-fs
+defaults to minimizing the extra space, but you can use the I<--size>
+flag to leave space in the filesystem if you want it.
+
+An alternative way to leave extra space but not make the output image
+any bigger is to use an alternative disk image format (instead of the
+default "raw" format). Using I<--format=qcow2> will use the native
+QEmu/KVM qcow2 image format (check your hypervisor supports this
+before using it). This allows you to choose a large I<--size> but the
+extra space won't actually be allocated in the image until you try to
+store something in it.
+
+Don't forget that you can also use local commands including
+L and L to resize existing filesystems,
+or rerun virt-make-fs to build another image from scratch.
+
+=head3 EXAMPLE
+
+ virt-make-fs --format=qcow2 --size=+200M input output.img
+
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ my $format = "raw";
Choose the output disk image format.
-The default is C (raw disk image).
+The default is C (raw sparse disk image).
For other choices, see the L manpage. The only other
choice that would really make sense here is C.
@@ -260,13 +260,15 @@ Note that if you just use a lonesome I<--partition>, the Perl option
parser might consider the next parameter to be the partition type.
For example:
- virt-make-fs --partition input.tar ...
+ virt-make-fs --partition input.tar output.img
would cause virt-make-fs to think you wanted to use a partition type
of C which is completely wrong. To avoid this, use I<-->
-(a double dash) between options and the input file argument:
+(a double dash) between options and the input and output arguments:
+
+ virt-make-fs --partition -- input.tar output.img
- virt-make-fs --partition -- input.tar ...
+For MBR, virt-make-fs sets the partition type byte automatically.
=back
@@ -423,6 +425,22 @@ eval {
$partition = "mbr" if $partition eq "";
$g->part_disk ($dev, $partition);
$dev = "/dev/sda1";
+
+ # Set the partition type byte if it's MBR and the filesystem
+ # type is one that we know about.
+ my $mbr_id;
+ if ($partition eq "mbr") {
+ if ($type =~ /^v?fat$/) {
+ $mbr_id = 0xb;
+ } elsif ($type eq "ntfs") {
+ $mbr_id = 0x7;
+ } elsif ($type =~ /^ext\d$/) {
+ $mbr_id = 0x83;
+ } elsif ($type eq "minix") {
+ $mbr_id = 0x81;
+ }
+ }
+ $g->part_set_mbr_id ("/dev/sda", 1, $mbr_id) if defined $mbr_id;
}
print STDERR "creating $type filesystem on $dev ...\n" if $debug;
@@ -567,7 +585,7 @@ Richard W.M. Jones L